Category: Migration

  • Another night of heavy migration

    Clear skies and light winds made for another perfect night for migration. Here’s the radar from 6:00pm last night through 6:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Winds aloft were light and northeasterly, while at the surface things were pretty still. The radar indicated moderate […]

  • More heavy migration across the Eastern Flyway!

    Surface winds were light and northwesterly last night, with a slight southwesterly component at 3000 feet. Apparently birds ignored the high-altitude winds, as heavy migration was apparent up and down the eastern flyway, from Maine to Florida. Here’s the radar from 6:00pm last night through 6:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on […]

  • Heavy migration last night

    A hurricane spins off to our east, and a cold front pushes in from the west; oh what a night! Little-to-no wind was all the birds needed last night to kickstart another big migration event over the NE and mid-Atlantic. Here’s the radar from 6pm last night through 6am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 […]

  • Nothing moving on 8/20 – 8/21; plus forecast for the weekend

    Nothing moved last night, as winds were SSW all night. It looks like the same in on tap for tonight as well. Winds are forecast to slack on Saturday night, so if that happens, we should see a big push into the mid-Atlantic region for Sunday morning. If, instead, the winds keep up tomorrow night […]

  • Belated radar from 8/20

    This is a late posting of the radar from 6:00pm on 8/19 to 6:00am on 8/20. Migration was light, but apparent, over the NE and Mid-Atlantic. Now that I have finally defended my Ph.D. thesis, I can get back to posting the radar every morning! Here’s the radar from two nights ago: Frames are every […]

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